7.0 copium has got to stop

[Jojoya]

I'm not against what you are saying in general and i think it's unfair people call you a shill, but according to cambridge, being negative about competition is not a necessary requirement of a shill:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic.../english/shill

Not a requirement but it is a tactic that shills will use on occasion.

It's still really amusing that they call me one. "How dare you suggest that I stop playing FFXIV, you FFXIV shill!"

If I'm shilling for anything, I'm shilling for their happiness. It's outright dumb to keep playing a game if you're not having fun with it.

[Rolder50]

If you didnt read it, how would you know?

You seriously cant read half a page of text?

Good lord, wait till you decide to pursue a degree..half a page is NOTHING compared to whats waiting. What will you do when a lecturer tells you to read three full chapters by the end of the week?

Tell them "too long didnt read'?? Ask them for the TL : DR version? Tell them its hard to read "walls of text"? That wont get you far.

Oh and yeah..where I am now?

You will be one day.

You will be asking yourself why you are committing so much time and effort ingame when you can think of a dozen other things youd rather do with that time. Or you wont have the time anymore when real life and responsibility comes knocking.

Family, kids, work, there wont be enough hours in the day anymore. You will blink , look up and realise its three weeks later...and wonder where the time went. Your raid static will tell you when and where the next run is..and you will see you dont have the time. Or you are just too damned tired. Or you are due back onshift in ten hours and you need to sleep.

Or you will simply realise that whiist it seemed like fun at the time, its a never ending hamster wheel you just dont want to run any more.

So: here is a fact you may one day remember.

One day? You will be me.

So enjoy it while it lasts, my friend.

It wont forever.

Sounds like a skill issue. I got my bachelors while still finding time to piss away dozens of hours a week playing WoW and FF14. Course, I got that degree with solid Bs and Cs, but I got the paper in the end so no problemo.

Now I'm almost 30 (damn it) with a full time job and whatnot, and can STILL find plenty of time.

[DPZ2]

Reading half a page of needless walls of text is difficult, if it is taking that entire length to make a point that can be summarised in under 20 words.

So, your "essay" here is 139 words too long?

I'd blame the lack of concentration these days on cell phones.

[DPZ2]

Written conversation requires more words than certain posters appear to be able to handle.

I blame TikTok and Twitter.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Or we just have better uses of our time such as memorizing the sequence of Amnesia: The Bunker to get the speedrun achievement.

[DPZ2]

Why would anyone read the forums if they've got more pressing matters such as getting a speedrun achievement?

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Because we can.

[DPZ2]

You can also read a post with 265 words rather than 20, since you have the time.

End transmission.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

But I won't.

Deal with it.

[AwesomeJr44]

The key is how many words are just utter filler, and how much substance you actually get for the words being detailed. Reading pages is easy work, reading books is easy work if they are well authored. People aren't going to treat an academic report, or a well established book with the same respect as padding words on a forum.

Exactly. If a post is well written and makes good use of its words, then I don't see a problem with having a longer post. But if you're going to make essays where a majority of its words are simply fluff and padding, then why should I waste my time reading that if I don't feel like it is worth it? I'm not here to grade student papers. It has nothing to do with a short attention span or an inability to read longer posts like Vel and DPZ2 are saying. I simply don't have an obligation to read essays if they don't have much substance hidden beneath the large word count.

Oh and Vel, I read your essay. It had absolutely nothing of substance in it. But I wouldn't try to lecture me about how I should spend my time. Statistically I most likely have more time left here on this Earth than you do, and yet you're still here shilling for a video game on an online forum. You were right about one thing. It doesn't last forever, for anyone. But that includes you. Instead of worrying about how others are spending their time, worry about your own.

So like your posts?

Do you want peace or not? Doesn't seem like you do. Go write me another book about it or let it go like I told you to.

crying in his edit

Dude, if me refusing to make a formal agreement with you is going to cause you to continue whining about this 'drama' forever, then just go ahead and keep doing it. I really don't really care if you cling onto this forever. I'll just go back to laughing at you the next time you bring it up like I should have all along, instead of asking you to not be a massive hypocrite.